In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up--here we see who God is and what he is like. Heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of hiddenness.
~Pope Benedict XVI

Friday, June 13, 2008

A Stroll through the Gardens

Pope Benedict XVI waits for U.S. President George W. Bush for a meeting in the medieval St John's Tower in the Vatican Gardens June 13, 2008. Pope Benedict gave Bush an unprecedented welcome in the tranquillity of the Vatican Gardens on Friday. REUTERS/Filippo Monteforte/Pool (VATICAN)

Pope Benedict XVI, left and U.S. President George W. Bush walk in the Vatican Gardens during their meeting at the Vatican Friday, June 13, 2008. The pontiff gave President Bush a rare peek of the Vatican Gardens, a spot where popes pray privately and only special guests are allowed to stroll. (AP Photo/Cristophe Simon, pool)

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Meeting in St. John's Tower. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano (VATICAN)

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AP Photo/Evan Vucci

U.S. President George W. Bush visits the Lourdes Grotto with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican June 13, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed (VATICAN)

U.S. President George W. Bush (R), Pope Benedict XVI and first lady Laura Bush applaud a boy's choir as they visit the Lourdes Grotto at the Vatican June 13, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed (VATICAN)

Defend Life

About Me

Ora pro nobis sancta Dei Genetrix

Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi

Silent Holocaust

Piercing the veil

"At that hour of the Sacrifice, at the words of the Priest, the heavens are opened, and in that mystery of Jesus Christ, the choirs of Angels are present, and things below are joined to things on high, earthly things to heavenly, and the service is both a visible and an invisible event."~St. Gregory the Great, Pope of Rome († 604)

Here There Are Lions

What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place.~Pope Benedict XVI